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‘Kung Fu Panda’ Sequel to Focus Solely On Panda Mating Rituals?

I wonder where the monkey and mantis play into this equation...

Photo: DreamWorks Animation

Steve Hulett of the Animation Guild posted a quick news item on Tuesday saying:

Every building of the DW campus is bursting with activity. Monsters and Aliens, Shrek, Madagascar Deux, and on and on. DreamWorks’ Lakeside Building is getting enlarged, and the administrative staff is gone from the upper floors.

But down on the lower levels, artists are working. A story crew has started early work in Kung Fu Panda, the Sequel, even while animators are hand-drawing new material for the DVD of Kung Fu Panda, the original.

No one should be surprised the studio behind what will soon be four Shrek films and what looks to be an impossibly stupid follow-up to the impossibly stupid Madagascar would move forward with a sequel to the wildly successful Kung Fu Panda, an animated film that is possibly better than the original Shrek if I were to compare to the DWA’s complete filmography.

Luckily there actually seems to be more story to tell with Panda as opposed to the made-up trash the Shrek sequels have been made of. Will it actually be about panda mating rituals as my headline questions? No, that was just to get you in here with a quizzical look on your face. I will say I hope the sequel brings us more monkey and mantis.

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